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Advanced Professional Roles and Values – D129 Task 1 - Nursing Philosophy 2022

Ethical Challenges and Legal Implications Nurses are faced with many ethical challenges every day. Along with those ethical challenges there are legal implications that encompass these challenges. The two ethical challenges, as well as the legal implications of these challenges, I chose to discuss are end of life care and incompetent staff. End of life care is an ethical challenge nurses in my organization have to deal with from time to time. Autonomy of the patient at the end of life is a ver...

D129 Task 1 Nursing P (1) D129 Nursing Philosophy College of Health Professions, Western Governors University D129 Task 1: Nursing Philosophy Florence Nightingale wrote that the difference between nursing and medicine was that medicine focuses on disease, whereas nursing focuses on illness and suffering with the goal to ease that suffering while promoting disease prevention. (Nightingale, 2009). The role and focus of nursing have grown greatly since Nightingale penned her understanding of...

D129 Task 1 Nursing P D129 Task 1: Nursing Philosophy College of Health Professions, Western Governors University Nursing Philosophy Florence Nightingale wrote that the difference between nursing and medicine was that medicine focuses on disease, whereas nursing focuses on illness and suffering with the goal to ease that suffering while promoting disease prevention. (Nightingale, 2009). The role and focus of nursing have grown greatly since Nightingale penned her understanding of nursing. ...